Penhas
Penhas is an application for smartphones developed by AzMina, a women's organization, and designed for use by women who are current or potential victims of violence, both in domestic and in public spheres. The app offers the possibility to register 5 emergency contacts, who can receive messages in urgent cases, and a panic button that activates them. It also offers information on prevention and containment in cases of violence, and a map of shelters and safe houses. Finally, a recording function is added to produce evidence in the event that users are victims of violent acts.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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